good news for you and some bad news for me

First, the bad news for me: my town just got a little bit crappier than it already was.

"How is that even possible?!" I hear you ask in astonishment.

Very simple. A vast majority of the awesome is leaving to live at university this year. This includes my friend Jenny and her BF Pat, Brandy, Jason and Nick (though, granted, they're not that far and I'll still see them since my school is on the same campus) as well as some of my friends from work including Evelyn, Chloe, Peter, Jen, Andreas, Jared and Gonzalo. And some others that I will probably remember when I'm done typing this and will have to mention in an edit.

The fact that they're all away from home, living on their own makes me very sad and lonely (especially because Joe - my only friend to still be living in my town this school year - is still out of the country and won't be back until next month) and also insanely jealous.

I'm ready to move out of this house, I just can't really afford to right now. I'd need to have a roommate and all the potentials are currently living in residence (BLAST YOU ALL).

Eff. I can feel the crushing weight of this crap hole bearing down on me as I type this.

So on to the GOOD NEWS (for you. And me, actually. HURRAY!)

The good news, is that your week just got a LITTLE more awesome.

"How so, Laura?" I hear you ask in wonder.

Simple: I'm taking part in a YouTube vlog project with 4 other people I met on nerdfighters.com.

And YOU GET TO WATCH! HURRAY!!!

I just gave you something to do this year while you're supposed to be doing homework. You're welcome.

It's kind of like FiveAwesomeGirls and FiveAwesomeGuys - only not because we're called SisterhoodOfAwesome. Though, the concept is the same - 5 people communicating via video blog, and getting to know each other that way.

That's the great thing about this project - I didn't know these girls at all until Kris asked around for people interested in doing a vlog project with her in the forum on the ning.

It's going to be EPIC!

I've posted the teaser trailer video I made below so you have more info, as well as today's vlog that I made.

YOUR WEEK JUST GOT SO MUCH MORE AWESOME!

You're welcome,

- Laura

caffeinated creativism

Someone asked me a while ago (like A WHILE AGO. As in, like a couple months ago) why I chose to have my web address as caffeinatedcreativism.com.
At the time, I chose it because I was drinking coffee and thinking to myself, "what would be a good word to describe me? CREATIVE! Now, let's add the main chemical to coffee to that..." and VOILA! Caffeinated Creativism.

Now, as websites go, it's a pretty hard one to spell as I later came to the conclusion that NO ONE knows how to spell the word "caffeine" correctly.

Even me. I remember having to look it up when I registered my domain name.

But it was just today that I came up with a thingee that basically explains what the term "caffeinated creativism" means.

Caffeinated creativism means:
1) That you work best when you are awake
2) That you are most creative when you have caffeine in your system
3) The resulting hyper-ness from caffeine gives you AWESOME ideas to work with when you're trying to be creative in whatever it is you're doing

So yeah, I am in a fairly consistent state of being creatively caffeinated.

Anyway...

NEW VLOG POSTED BELOW FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVEN'T WATCHED IT YET!!!

DFTBA,
Laura

Aug 19/08 - Five Part Discussion While Eating a Burrito

In which I discuss
1) The awesomeness of the burrito
2) Songs wot I posted last week
3) Being honored on YouTube for 6 hours
4) HBP and Twilight (the movies)
5) Some of my art
all while eating a vegetarian burrito of goodness.

Bonus Videos from Last Week:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfW7uA1Gxts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHZLJPn0aE0

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is scheduled to be released JULY 17, 2009

Twilight is scheduled to be released NOVEMBER 21, 2008 - about 3 weeks earlier than anticipated.

i was honored on youtube for about 6 hours

and then they took it away from me. Which then proceeded to make me very sad.

I woke up on Saturday morning and went through my usual routine:

1. Roll myself out of bed (sometimes literally)
2. Shuffle to kitchen to make coffee
3. Wait for coffee
4. Pour coffee
5. Go back to room
6. Check email
7. Check Facebook
8. Check YouTube

I did something along the lines of this (see screen capture below) when I was doing number 8:
Then I proceeded to have a mini panic attack and then went to my channel page and was all, HOLY CRAP I'M #70 Most Viewed (Today) - Directors - Canada (!!!!!!)

Then I checked later, and I was #55. See:
And now it says nothing. Because I stopped being number 55 most viewed of Directors channels in Canada.

But whatever. Thank god I got screen captures of it as proof. And even though it doesn't have the little medal thing on my channel anymore, you and I know the truth - that I WAS at some point honored by YouTube. And I was very happy about it.

Need to get ready for work now.

DFTBA,
Laura

i haven't posted art in a while...

...or you know - TEXT. I've just been posting Vlogs that I've done. That's got to be SUPER boring for the people who might have found this site via my YouTube channel (sorry about that. Hope the old stuff entertained you).

The reason I haven't posted art in a while, is because I haven't done much. Well, that's a bit of a lie. I've done stuff, I just haven't SCANNED it or done it digitally. I've been doing everything on paper lately.

And I've also found that my talent has taken a turn for the worse. Case and point, this drawing, which is horrible:It's kind of a picture of me. Kind of not. Actually I think the file name of the drawing is actually "Me - ISH.jpg".

But I have been up to other stuff. Like designing something for a t-shirt like these:

(front)

(back)

As you can tell from other posts, I've started a Vlog. I really enjoy it. I constantly get ideas for stuff I want to Vlog about but I've settled on 1-2 videos per week and I if I made a video every time I got an idea, it would be more like 1-2 per day.

Maybe I should take the ideas I decide not to do a video about and make it into a blog post instead so that a) the idea doesn't get wasted; b) if gives me something to talk about on here and; c) gives anyone who actually reads this something to, you know, READ. And maybe I won't feel bad for wasting good ideas/putting good ideas off all the time.

There's not much else for me to talk about here. This post is more out of guilt for lack attention than anything else.

Ummm...
That's all.

Kthxbai.

christmas in august...sorta

i, like, say the word "like", like way too often. like.